racist opinion a crime

Kelley Walker kelley at interpactinc.com
Fri Mar 30 15:10:34 PST 2001


www.urbanlegends.com has a page on this i believe.


>Carrol used the phrase, "rule of thumb, " I'd heard a few years
>ago about the
>origins of that phrase in the Middle Ages referring to the
>"proper" dimensions of a rod or stick to use to beat one's wife.
>A search on google just now brought up some hits. Unfortunately,
>the first one was from some anti-feminist website that used the
>disingenuous work of Christina
>Hoff Sommers. Other hits, more credible, on H-Net. So, just what
>is the truth regarding this?
>Michael Pugliese



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